[GNC] accounts setup (how to duplicate same payment in two expense accounts)

[Peter West]

Hi Adrian,

What I suggested was negative credits.

I have sometimes accidentally ended up with similar situations when I have made a mistake with a complex split. With my current setup, the negative amounts show up in red with a minus sign.

However, if other vacation expenses were not also being pre-allocated to non-vacation accounts, you would end up with a hotch-potch.

I use sub-accounts to track my budget allocations. From every incoming payment, I divert various budgetary amounts to a single bank account, and keep track of how much I have allocated for various future expenses by means of sub-accounts of that single bank account. That can get a bit confusing.

Peter
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Peter West
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> On 29 Jan 2020, at 3:47 am, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> You’d 1 or more debits to balance that $100 in credits.
> 
> What you’re describing here is using accounts ‘virtually’ for tracking purposes.
> 
> That is doable, but lots of extra work for something simple.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2020 w5d28, at 7:46 AM, Peter West <pbw at pbw.id.au> wrote:
>> 
>> How would this work?
>> 
>> Set up an expense account for Vacation expenses.
>> 
>> Set up other expense accounts for
>> Vacation fuel
>> Vacation accommodation
>> Vacation flights
>> Vacation entertainment
>> etc
>> 
>> Note that these are also expense accounts.
>> 
>> Enter your fuel, say $50, normally against your cash/cheque/credit card account and, say, Vehicle expenses. These will be matching Cr and Dr entries.
>> 
>> Then enter $50 against Vacation expenses (cr, I think?), and enter negative $50 (also cr) against Vacation fuel. These will zero out, but the Vacation expenses account will still show how much you spent on your vacation, and the Vacation fuel account will show a negative amount for your vacation fuel expenses.
>> 
>> Peter
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